Archive for April, 2008
GOP-on-GOP vitriol
Internal strife within the Knox County GOP ranks hits the local blogsophere:
So Brian Hornback lets loose with the poison that he normally saves for private conversations. He calls me a liar, but doesn’t say what I am lying about. He calls me a lawyer, as if that is going to hurt my feelings. He says [...]
Read More..>>Discover some new bloggers
Folks are signing up to use our new WBIR Online Community blogging platform.
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Knoxville’s First Friday goes digital
The increasingly popular monthly event now has its own fan site.
(Via KnoxViews)
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An Esco Jarnigan witchhunt?
WBIR blogger David Oatney has some thoughts on recent developments with the sheriff in Hamblen County:
Hamblen County Sheriff Esco Jarnigan is one of the best Sheriffs in this State-at least in my opinion. We’ve only met a couple of times, but Sheriff Esco strikes me as a man who is seriously committed to his job [...]
Read More..>>Creationist convergence
Via Joe Powell, I learned that there is a get-together for creationists taking place in Greeneville this week, with speakers and such:
Noting that the Earth’s surface was first covered with water, and still is very substantially covered by water, he said that evolutionists in the scientific field have trouble explaining how such vast quantities of [...]
Read More..>>If only we could put it on our collective p-cards…
Randy Neal reveals that the estimated $80,000 it will now cost to verify the charter amendment petitions will be charged to Knox County taxpayers.
As you are probably aware, the Knox Charter Petition group will now take it to the streets. The group is launching an effort to get the 40,000 signatures needed (times two) after [...]
Read More..>>Top five Knoxville spots to avoid
Byron offers his thoughts on where around town you are most likely to be shot, robbed, or sexually harassed, complete with Google mash-up map.
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PHOTOBLOGGING: Regional Science Fair winners at Tate’s School last night
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Some things just can’t wait
Hmmmm….clearly this is a serious medical issue with which many Tennesseans contend on a daily basis, but is forcing private businesses to offer restroom facilities the answer?
The Tennessee Restroom Access Act will allow people with “a medical condition that requires immediate access to a restroom” to use a business’ private restroom, as long as that [...]
Read More..>>Padgett’s not so keen on this “Manhattan Project”
Mike Padgett says Lamar Alexander hasn’t proved himself on clean energy, which makes his new call for some sort of “Manhattan Project” rather suspect:
“In five years as a United States senator, he has done nothing that would prevent the pain we’re feeling now at the pump,” Padgett said after Senator Alexander announced that he would [...]
Read More..>>Join the WBIR Online Community
I’d like to invite all of you Knoxville Talks readers - and there are quite a few of you these days - to become members of our brand, spankin’ new WBIR Online Community. Here’s my own WBIR Profile right here.
Our community is similar to many other social networking sites with which you are already familiar, [...]
Get to know us!
The new WBIR.com is here! We are really excited about it, and one of the cool, new features is our video player, which will allow you to share and embed our video, just like you do with You Tube videos.
See, like this:
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Wright gone wrong
From The Vol Abroad:
Certain right wing bloggers have a race theory about this - that because Wright’s ideology is based on pervasiveness of racism and oppression in America to the extent that a black man could never be president - he has to make sure that this remains the case if a black man gets [...]
Read More..>>Whine, whine, whine
No fair! Urban Outfitters is opening a store in Nashville, not Knoxville.
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Oh come on! Funnel cakes ROCK!
Middle Tennessee blogger Brian Mosely has a harsh assessment of East Tennessee attractions:
I love the Smokies and head up that way often, continuing a tradition I’ve had since the parents took me in the 1970’s. But what I can’t stand is what has happened to places like Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge, and to a lesser [...]
Read More..>>Moncier’s dilemma
Today, the Knoxville legal and political grapevine is abuzz with word of the major sanctions with which local attorney Herb Moncier was hit today by a federal judge. The biggest thing, of course, is that Moncier cannot practice in federal court for the next few years.
However, another Knoxville attorney pointed out to me a couple [...]
Las Vegas done Jed Clampett-style = Pigeon Forge
Byron pointed me to this travel feature from the Columbus Dispatch, in which the writer chronicles his recent visit to East Tennessee’s top tourist destinations.
A few of his observations:
This popular vacation destination on the Tennessee-North Carolina border is one of the most American places I can imagine: a mixture of the sublime and [...]
Bold action on clean energy?
If he really means it, this would be a Very Good Thing.
With gas prices hitting $4 a gallon, U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander said today he will call for a five-year effort similar to the Manhattan Project to put the country on the path to clean-energy independence
The senator said he would lay out the specifics of [...]
It’s not easy being Glenn
I have to agree with Dr. Helen that those who minimize how hard Glenn Reynolds works at making Instapundit the success that it is should try to do what he does for a single day. She doesn’t even mention the fact that the guy also works full time as a professor at a major law [...]
Read More..>>Ch-ch-ch-changes to Knoxville’s road system this week
How will the I-40 shutdown through Downtown affect you? ( polls)
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